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Re: Use Exit, not exit, in test suite


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: Use Exit, not exit, in test suite
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:00:21 +0200

Ralf Wildenhues <address@hidden> wrote:
...
>     Use `Exit' instead of `exit' in test suite.
...
> +# We use a trap below for cleanup.  This requires us to go through
> +# hoops to get the right exit status transported through the signal.
> +# So use `Exit STATUS' instead of `exit STATUS' inside of the tests.
> +# Turn off errexit here so that we don't trip the bug with OSF1/Tru64
> +# sh inside this function.
> +Exit ()
> +{
> +  set +e
> +  (exit $1)
> +  exit $1
> +}

Nice!  I'll use the same in coreutils' bourne shell test scripts.
Looks like 300 of them can use this.




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